‘Red Bean Army’ is merely a title, says creator

(The Star) – The “Red Bean Army” is merely a title and not an organisation with an agenda, said one of the page creators Li Shuang.

According to China Press yesterday, Li said it was merely a platform for the Netizens to discuss political issues, stressing that they had never issued any comments to provoke racial hatred.

Li claimed he and one of the administrators of Zheng Yi Zhi Sheng (a Facebook fanpage), Ye Jin Qiang, only knew 40 to 50 people out of over 200 “Red Bean Army” members as reported by a Malay daily.

He said the “Red Bean Army” was not a registered organisation while Facebook was a social network where anyone could claim they were part of the “Red Bean Army”.

Li and Ye stressed that the irresponsible statements issued by some of the Netizens had nothing to do with the “Red Bean Army” and called on the police to take action against those who issued the provocative statements.

It was reported that Malaysian technopreneur Pua Khein Seng (picture) denied that he was behind the funding of the “Red Bean Army”, an alleged cyber trooper group linked to the DAP in attacking the Government via the social media.

Pua is the founder of Phison Electronics Corp which introduced the world’s first single-chip USB flash drive or pen drive,

In his recent statement, Pua said he would not hesitate to take legal action against the newspaper after the authorities completed their probe.

“This is a fabricated, baseless and malicious allegation. Honestly, I do not know how I should respond since it is an unfounded accusation.

“I urge the authorities who are investigating the matter to contact me so that the truth can be revealed. I will give my full cooperation,” said Pua, whose statement was read out by Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng during a press conference at his office recently.